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Wataru "Wat" Misaka

Basketball player (b.1923)

• Japanese American Sports Hall of Fame: inductee, 2002.

• NBAの扉を開いた日系人：　ワット・ミサカ物語

• Liz Robbins, "Size 7s still hard to fill". Deseret News, January 20, 2005.

• Liz Robbins, "When diversity came to NBA". International Herald Tribune, December 30, 2004.

• "'Wat' a Player: Catching up with "Wat" Misaka, first NBA player of Asian descent" (NBA.com)

• Douglas Stark, "Wat Misaka: an Asian basketball pioneer". Basketball Digest, February 2002.